“For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.” (Romans 8:2)
Dr. John G. Lake went as a missionary to Africa in 1908. The deadly bubonic plague broke out in his area. Hundreds died. He cared for the sick and buried the dead. Finally the British sent a relief ship with medical supplies and corps of doctors. The doctors sent for Lake to come aboard. They asked him, “What have you been using to protect yourself?”
“Sirs,” Lake replied, “I believe the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death. And as long as I walk in the light of that law of life, no germ will attach itself to me.”
“You had better use our preventatives,” the doctors urged.
“No,” Lake said, “but I think you would like to experiment with me. Take some of the foam that comes from the victims’ lungs after death, and examine it under the microscope. You will find the masses of living germs remain alive for a while after the man is dead. Fill my hand with the foam and examine it under the microscope. Instead of remaining alive, the germs will die instantly.”
The doctors made the experiment and what Lake said proved true. When the doctors expressed wonder at what caused it, Lake told them, “That is the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.”
“Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.” (Romans 8:37)
If God’s Word had just told us we were conquerors, it would have been enough but it tells us that we are more than conquerors through Jesus Christ.
Rather than saying, “I’m defeated,” rise up and say what the Bible says about you. Say, “I am a conqueror!”
It may not seem to you that you are a conqueror, but your confession of it because of what you see in God’s Word will create the reality of it in your life.
Sooner or later you will become what you confess!
If you make the right confession: